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  1. Depp V Heard 2023

    Documentary

    The story of the tumultuous defamation trial between superstar Johnny Depp and his former wife Amber Heard.

    The sides of Depp V Heard

    • The 2022 defamation trial in Virginia
    • Testimony from both sides
    • Online reactions to the case as it unfolded

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real trial that played out in public.
    • you like a case where you have to decide for yourself who to believe.
    • you want a short miniseries you can finish in an evening or two.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not hear testimony about domestic violence.
    • you want a lighter watch than a real court case.

    About: fame · social media · truth

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  2. My Scientology Movie 2016

    Documentary

    After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun to stage re-enactments of alleged abuses within the organization. Theroux soon discovers that the church is watching his every move.

    The sides of My Scientology Movie

    • Louis Theroux shut out of Scientology
    • Actors auditioning to play its leader
    • Cameras filming the man who films them

    Good for you if

    • you like Louis Theroux's deadpan face to face moments.
    • you like actors re-enacting scenes described by former members.
    • you like Theroux being followed and filmed by the people he's filming.

    Bad for you if

    • you want answers, and the church never lets him in.
    • you'd rather not hear former members describe alleged abuse.

    About: control · faith · fear

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  3. Tabloid 2011

    Documentary

    One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.

    The sides of Tabloid

    • A former beauty queen telling her side
    • A Mormon missionary who vanished in 1977 England
    • British tabloids racing for the scoop

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at a true story so strange it sounds invented.
    • you like a real 1977 scandal and the British tabloids that fought over it.
    • you can't look away from Joyce McKinney telling her version with total conviction.

    Bad for you if

    • you need to know at the end who was telling the truth.
    • you can't hear a kidnapping and rape accusation told as a strange, funny story.

    About: obsession · the press · truth

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  4. Feels Good Man 2020

    Documentary

    When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.

    The sides of Feels Good Man

    • Pepe the Frog, a stoner comic character
    • A meme taken over by hate groups
    • Artist Matt Furie trying to win him back

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story behind a meme you've seen everywhere.
    • you like a gentle artist caught in something huge.
    • you're curious how internet culture reached politics.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand hate symbols and online harassment.
    • you want something light about a cartoon frog.

    About: the internet · ownership · hate

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  5. Jimmy Savile was one of the United Kingdom’s most beloved TV personalities. Shortly after his death in 2011, an investigation prompted more than 450 horrific allegations of sexual assault and abuse, with victims as young as 5.

    The sides of Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story

    • A TV star loved by the British public
    • Archive footage of his decades of fame
    • Survivors of his abuse

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real case that shook Britain.
    • you want to see how fame and institutions protected Jimmy Savile.
    • you want to know how this stayed hidden for so long.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take accounts of child sexual abuse.
    • you need some justice at the end, and he died before any trial.

    About: abuse of power · silence · celebrity

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  6. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.

    The sides of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

    • Eight former members of the Church of Scientology
    • How a science fiction writer founded a religion
    • Testimony about abuse inside the church

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing people explain how they came to believe, and how they left.
    • you want to know how an organisation keeps control of its members.
    • you like long testimonies where people choose every word.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to accounts of psychological abuse and broken families.
    • you lose track when names pile up. Eight former members, two church leaders and a few film stars come and go.

    About: belief · control · leaving

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  7. The Great Hack 2019

    Documentary

    Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

    The sides of The Great Hack

    • Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data
    • A former insider who turns whistleblower
    • Brexit and the 2016 US election

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
    • you like stories about who controls elections and how.
    • you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope, not a worrying look at your own data.
    • you lose track when a film follows Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll and a journalist all at once.

    About: privacy · democracy · manipulation

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  8. Disclosure 2020

    Documentary

    An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

    The sides of Disclosure

    • Trans actors and writers talking about the screen
    • Decades of film and TV clips
    • How Hollywood shaped the way people see trans lives

    Good for you if

    • you want trans people telling their own story of growing up with Hollywood.
    • you like tracing a century of film and TV images.
    • you like being moved by people recalling what the screen did to them.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through cruel jokes and painful scenes being replayed.
    • you'd rather keep your distance from heartfelt, personal testimony.

    About: representation · identity · media

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  9. Featuring interviews with performers, activists and past employees, this documentary offers a deep dive into the successes and scandals of Pornhub.

    The sides of Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

    • Performers and former employees talking
    • A website at the center of a scandal
    • Payment companies cutting ties

    Good for you if

    • you want performers, activists and former staff telling their side.
    • you like seeing who controls money and content on a huge website.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not watch a film about the porn industry, or you watch with others.
    • you can't hear about abuse videos posted without consent.

    About: consent · money · the internet

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  10. Audrie & Daisy 2016

    Documentary

    A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.

    The sides of Audrie & Daisy

    • Two teenage girls who were sexually assaulted
    • Families facing the aftermath
    • Online harassment in small towns

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear what happened from the families and survivors themselves.
    • you can be moved by families speaking about a loss.
    • you want to see how small towns turned on two girls instead of the boys they accused.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about sexual assault and suicide.
    • you need justice at the end of a true story, and these cases leave you angry.

    About: consent · victim blaming · cyberbullying · grief

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  11. The Dissident 2020

    Documentary

    When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

    The sides of The Dissident

    • A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
    • His fiancée waiting outside
    • Dissidents fighting a state online

    Good for you if

    • you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
    • you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
    • you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
    • you can't hear the details of a killing described.

    About: free speech · surveillance · impunity

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  12. Generation Wealth 2018

    Documentary

    Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.

    The sides of Generation Wealth

    • Twenty-five years of Lauren Greenfield's photos
    • People chasing the look of wealth
    • The photographer's own family

    Good for you if

    • you want real people telling how money took over their lives.
    • you like questioning what money and status do to us.
    • you like a filmmaker who also looks at money in her own family.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch debt, addiction and broken families on screen.
    • you lose track when a film jumps between dozens of people over 25 years.

    About: money · image · excess

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  13. With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

    The sides of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

    • Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
    • A blood test machine that never worked
    • A ten billion dollar company that collapsed

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Theranos and its blood test.
    • you like watching hype and investors carry a company to ten billion dollars.
    • you want to understand how Elizabeth Holmes convinced so many people.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more than interviews and boardroom footage.
    • you want surprises, and you already know how Theranos ended.

    About: fraud · ambition · hype

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  14. When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.

    The sides of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

    • Steve Jobs from the suburbs to Apple
    • Former colleagues speaking on camera
    • The grief of millions who never met him

    Good for you if

    • you like a documentary that questions the legend of Steve Jobs.
    • you like seeing how one man ran the world's richest company.
    • you like a portrait of a man full of contradictions.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not hear about worker suicides at the factories that build iPhones.
    • you can't spend two hours with a man who denied his own daughter.

    About: ambition · technology · legacy

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  15. City of Ghosts 2017

    Documentary

    With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

    The sides of City of Ghosts

    • Citizen journalists from Raqqa
    • Reporting on ISIS from exile
    • Activists living under threat in Turkey and Germany

    Good for you if

    • you want to meet the people behind Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
    • you like real suspense, with activists checking over their shoulders even in Germany.
    • you want to see the Syrian war through the eyes of its citizens.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real execution and propaganda footage.
    • you can't face the grief of families who lost people to ISIS.

    About: courage · exile · the truth

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  16. The Social Dilemma 2020

    Documentary

    This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

    The sides of The Social Dilemma

    • Former tech insiders explaining what they built
    • A fictional family glued to their phones
    • The algorithm played by three actors

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear from the people who designed the like button and the feed.
    • you like seeing who profits from the hours you spend scrolling.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at dramatized scenes and warnings about the end of society.
    • you can't take figures on teen self-harm and depression.

    About: technology · manipulation · addiction

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  17. Bowling for Columbine 2002

    Documentary

    This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

    The sides of Bowling for Columbine

    • A bank that hands out a rifle when you open an account
    • Columbine security camera footage
    • An interview with Charlton Heston at his home

    Good for you if

    • you want a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings.
    • you can laugh at a cartoon history of America while the subject is gun deaths.
    • you like a sardonic narrator who questions everyone from Marilyn Manson to Charlton Heston.

    Bad for you if

    • a school shooting and a six-year-old girl's death are too much for you.
    • you can't watch real footage from inside a school during a shooting.

    About: guns · fear · violence

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  18. Isle of Flowers 1989

    Documentary

    A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

    The sides of Isle of Flowers

    • A tomato from a field to a dump
    • A narrator explaining everything like a textbook
    • People waiting after the pigs for food

    Good for you if

    • you like a cold, deadpan voice that makes you laugh before it hurts.
    • you can take an ending that leaves you with nothing to hold on to.
    • you want something that hits hard in thirteen minutes.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles, even for a short film in Portuguese.
    • you can't bear to see hunger and poverty on screen.

    About: poverty · money · dignity

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  19. Best of Enemies 2015

    Documentary

    A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"

    The sides of Best of Enemies

    • Gore Vidal against William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Televised debates during the 1968 conventions
    • A night when the insults went live

    Good for you if

    • you love two brilliant speakers trading cutting lines.
    • you like politics as a duel, the liberal Vidal against the conservative Buckley.
    • you're drawn to 1968 America, Miami and Chicago.

    Bad for you if

    • you need something to look at, not archive footage of two men seated in a TV studio.
    • you find grainy sixties TV footage dated.

    About: politics · television · rivalry

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  20. Collapse 2009

    Documentary

    From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

    The sides of Collapse

    • A former LAPD officer turned independent reporter
    • One man talking in a dark room
    • Oil, money and the end of growth

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing how oil and money hold the world together.
    • you want to sit across from a real man with a radical life story.
    • you can take a gloomy warning about the future with no comfort at the end.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more on screen than one man talking and smoking.
    • you need every prediction backed by evidence you can check.

    About: collapse · oil · prophecy · capitalism

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